Heatsink grease

Bruce Plecan nacelp at bright.net
Wed Aug 19 21:20:53 GMT 1998


-----Original Message-----
From: Shahab Raza Raja <raja at super.net.pk>
To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Heatsink grease


>Chris Conlon wrote:
>> 
>> Apologies for the vaguely-efi content,
>> 
>> There are several greases designed to increase heat flow between (say)
>> a transistor and a heatsink; are there compounds to increase heat flow
>> between a heat sink and air? I know you can paint it black, but I'm
>> talking about convective heat flow, not radiative.
>> 
>>    TIA,
>Dear  Chris C.
>  There is no such compound, as per my knoledge, there are only two more
>ways to increase heat transfer.(1) increase the radiation area by
>extension in the sink (2) use fan to increase the air flow. there are no
>of small fans avialable such as fans for cooling CPU of desk top
>conputers and fans for power supply of computer.
>
>regards
>
>Shahab R. Raja
>
>




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